This is why your beard hair is a different color than your head hair

If you've ever wondered why the hair on one part of your body
looks so different from the hair on another part, you're probably
not alone. This phenomenon is a perfectly natural one, and it can
be explained pretty easily with science.

As it turns out, you have different types of hair that grow
during different phases of your life — and they can come in
different colors and textures.

Deep inside the hair follicles (tiny pockets in your skin that
house each strand of your hair), there are two different types of
pigment that give your lovely locks their hue.

These two types of pigment are eumelanin, which colors hair black
or brown, and pheomelanin, which colors hair blonde or red. Despite
what you may have heard, all humans have a little bit of
pheomelanin in our hair. It's just that in people with dark
brown or black hair, the pheomelanin is effectively masked by the
darker eumelanin. If your brown hair has a few golden or auburn
tones, that's the eumelanin peeking through!

But different parts of the body are home to different colors —
and textures — of hair. A variety of factors contribute to this
phenomenon, including the fact that some follicles simply produce
more pigment than others. Usually, eyebrow
hair is the darkest; the follicles there tend to produce a
lot of pigment.

So what about texture? The hair on your beard — or on your
genitals or on your tummy — can be wiry and curly — even while
the stuff on your head is smooth and straight. There's another
reason for this. As opposed to the hair on your head ("head
hair"), the stuff coming out of your beard belongs to a type of
hair called androgenic hair,
which sprouts during and after puberty thanks to changes in
the levels of a certain type of hormone called androgens.

Androgenic hair also differs slightly from head hair in terms of
how it grows. Like head hair, it goes through
three different growth phases in which the hair grows at
different speeds, but these phases happen at slightly different
times, which influences how long or short your hair gets.

So there you have it! If you have curly hair in one place
and straight hair in another, embrace it. It's perfectly natural.